278 Aurora Borealis of November 14, 1837. 
utes another arch of white light partially formed in the southern 
sky, rising about 10° above Fomalhaut, and having nearly the 
same direction with the preceding. This arch was never com- 
plete, and soon vanished entirely. The great arch I have before 
described, brightened up again, in very nearly the same position 
as before, being perhaps a little more regular in its outline. * * 
* * About half past eight, light of a crimson color was ob- 
served to shoot from the eastern horizon toward and beyond the 
zenith, nearly in the position of the former arch. The heavens 
were now nearly covered with thin cirro-cumulus clouds, and the 
contrast of the ordinary clouds with this crimson auroral light, 
produced avery singular effect. 'The sky remained cloudy during 
the night, and the next morning there fell a few flakes of snow.” 
The time at Hudson, is about thirty-four minutes earlier than 
at New Haven. From the accounts given by Mr. Smith, Mr. 
Haskins, and Professor Loomis, it seems impossible to identify 
any particular phases as having been noticed by any two of the 
observers. Professor Loomis was probably mistaken in supposing 
that he saw the commencement of the Aurora. At the time of 
his first observation, a corona had already formed itself, and faded 
away at Geneva. The accounts just given, hardly satisfy us in 
regard to the splendor of the first auroral display. We are forced 
to believe that, but for the clouds, it would have been much more 
magnificent in the cities of New Haven and New York, than it 
is here represented to have been. 
The Aurora, (to go still farther west, ) was observed in the city 
of St. Louis, Mo. The Republican of that city remarks: “This 
beautiful and interesting phenomenon, was visible during nearly 
the whole night, and was particularly brilliant between the hours 
of twelve and one, when the moon was near its zenith.” Time 
in St. Louis being rather more than an hour earlier than in New 
York, this last display was contemporaneous with the latest re 
turn of the Aurora in our longitude: but this, which was 
pee energetic here, appears there to have been the most remark- 
ble. 
From places north of New Haven, we should, of course, ant 
cipate accounts of the appearance of this phenomenon. A letter 
from Professor A. W. Smith, of the Wesleyan University at Mid- 
dletown, Conn., to Mr. Herrick, describes the heavens as they 4P" 
peared, from half past five till half past six, in terms very neatly 
